Lucy stares . I'm a dual psychic? What powers come with the yellow sparkles? Will the training she used with her pure energy work here? Tugging on the yellow sparkles, Lucy combines a few sparkles . It required a slightly different touch, but Lucy picked it up quickly . Once all the loose yellow sparkles have combined into one, Lucy opens her mental sea . Lucy pauses . Her mental sea was denser . Curious at the change, Lucy focuses and moves it . It was strangely stable . Usually, her mental sea shook and tugged at her powers attempting to get away . Now, it was so simple .

Advertis.e.m.e.ntShaking off her daze, Lucy guides the combined yellow sparkle in forming a little stream . Lucy etches a path in her mental sea for it to flow through, so she wouldn't have to guide it all the time . A trick, Lucy had learned shortly after her 21st birthday . It improved her control over her pure energy tremendously . Lucy begins to combine her silver sparkles, but it doesn't take long to establish her pure energy stream .

That done, Lucy was bored once again . This sucks! Even with the Spirit Seeds producing new sparkles, it took only a few seconds to fuse those few sparkles into her two streams . Hearing some noise, Lucy perks up . "Please darling, have an affinity . Any affinity" Mom's voice filters through . What's an affinity? Lucy wrinkles her forehead . "Don't be a waste," Mom says, so softly Lucy almost can't hear her . Waste? "Even if it's weak, I can protect you, just have an affinity, darling . " What the h.e.l.l's an affinity? Lucy kicks, frustrated . Explain more!

Too bad, Mom went quiet, and no amount of kicking would make her start again . Lucy sulks . How much of my 9 months are left? My pure energy's so unstable, I can't even attempt to read minds . Let alone the fact I'd have to be touching someone . With nothing else to do, Lucy returns to her inner sky, looking at the spa.r.s.e sparkles that been produced while she listened to her Mom .

Staring at her Spirit Seeds, Lucy suddenly remembered Aunt Thea's theory . If one could remove all the energy sparkles, and absorb Primal Energy it might be possible to strengthen the inner sky, and Spirit Seed . Lucy and Aunt had never been able to test it . Opening a mental sea happened naturally once the Spirit core was formed, and the Spirit core was anch.o.r.ed into the inner sky .

Lucy closes her eyes to sense and is stunned . Oh my! So much Primal Essence! Lucy begins to gather it in her inner sky . Lucy can feel her inner sky strengthening, as it sunk in every nook and cranny . Days pa.s.s, while Lucy absorbs Primal essence, as fast as she could . Lucy resented, every time she was forced to stop and move the sparkles into her mental sea . This Primal essence wouldn't be as rich when she was born . Every breath pa.s.sed, was one wasted .

Lucy stretches, feeling a bit cramped, happily examining her inner sky . It was no longer absorbing any Primal essence . Lucy turns her eyes to the Spirit Seeds, and cautiously sends a bit towards the yellow Spirit Seed . It sucked it up greedily . After a moment, it's glow flashes brighter for a second . It will strengthen it! Lucy grins and begins to gather the Primal essence once again .

Perhaps it was inevitable, perhaps it was fate . Lucy never noticed a black Seed gently soaking in the Primal essence she shoved in her inner sky, or the shadowy black sparkles it produced . Her gaze glued to the silver, and yellow Spirit Seed watching as they grew brighter and brighter . Until one day, all three Spirit seeds burst into a blinding blaze .